05-19-2009
Procmail
Hi,
I have a few questions.
I am new to UNIX/Linux. At work I notice that our mail server uses sendmail. When I looked in the sendmail.cf file I see that it is using PROCMAIL as the Local Delivery Agent.
Questions:-
- I looked for /etc/procmail to see its configuration file but I see none. Is that normal?
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- And the main question I have is how does procmail know where to deliver the mail? We have users on two partitions after all!
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- When users loggin to this server to get email how does the email client know where to go?
I am fuzzy on understanding how mail systems work and could use some help.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
sendmailconfig
SENDMAILCONFIG(8) System Manager's Manual SENDMAILCONFIG(8)
NAME
sendmailconfig - configure sendmail for Debian systems
SYNOPSIS
sendmailconfig [--no-reload]
DESCRIPTION
sendmailconfig is used to simplify the configuration of sendmail(8) for use on Debian systems.
In the simplest case, you may run this program to (re)configure sendmail for your Debian system at any time. It will modify the file
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc in order to create a working sendmail configuration which will be written to the file /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.
For advanced configurations, you can modify the sendmail.mc file before generating sendmail.cf. Future invokations of sendmailconfig will
preserve these changes provided they are made at the end of the file.
Normally sendmailconfig will ask if you want to reload sendmail after making changes to its configuration. The --no-reload option will
avoid this question.
FILES
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc
sendmail m4 input to generate sendmail.cf
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf
actual sendmail configuration file
/etc/mail/sendmail.cw
names for which we will accept mail in the standard configuration
/etc/mail/sendmail.ct
names of trusted users in the standard configuration
SEE ALSO
sendmail(8)
AUTHOR
Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>
21-Jan-1997 SENDMAILCONFIG(8)